Sign In Sign-Up

Welcome!

Close

Would you like to make this site your homepage? It's fast and easy...

Yes, Please make this my home page!

No Thanks

  Don't show this to me again.

Close

NAME: Yuugi Motou

ALIAS: King of Games, The other Yuugi, Nameless Pharaoh, Mou hitori no boku (by Yuugi)

RACE: Japanese

SPECIES: Human

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual

BIRTHDAY: July 26th

AGE: 3000+ yrs. (real age unknown), 20 (in appearance)

HOBBIES: Games, Dueling, Protecting others from harm, Protecting Yuugi & his friends

ORIGINAL OR CANON: Canon

FACE CLAIM: Yu-Gi-Oh! - Yami Yuugi/Pharaoh Atem

OCCUPATION: Professional Duelist

PLACE OF LIVING: Since he lives within the Millennium Puzzle, Yami goes wherever Yuugi goes.

IS THIS CHARACTER AN NPC?: No

POWERS/ABILITIES:
Millennium Puzzle – The Millennium Puzzle was originally named the Millennium Pendant before it was shattered and required assembly; it came to be known as the Millennium Puzzle. This item was one among the seven items that were forged 3000 years ago in order to protect Egypt from attackers. However, the Pharaoh of Egypt had locked his spirit and memories in it; this spirit, going by the name of Yami Yuugi, can take control of Yuugi Motou's body. The item has quite a few mysterious abilities, such as fulfilling one wish of the person who had solved it and heightening its owner's chance of success in a game, judging by their skill as well as the importance of the game at hand. The hieroglyphics inscribed on the puzzle say, "The one who solves me shall gain the powers and knowledge of darkness..." It can also initiate Shadow Games and corresponding Penalty Games that Yami Yuugi used to punish those who harmed Yuugi or his friends. It is also shown to have the power to interfere with the powers of other Millennium Items, such as when Yami Bakura put Bakura's soul inside of Change of Heart, but Yami Yuugi changed it to Yami Bakura's soul in the card. And it also had the power to perform 'Mind Crush', which Yami used to eradicate the darkness surrounding someone's heart.

PERSONALITY: Yami Yuugi started as an unforgiving vigilante. He emerges to deal justice to people who trespass on the souls of Yuugi and his friends. Yami defeats Seto Kaiba and uses his power to break his mind, but he was able to recover. Later, living inside Yuugi's body, he seems to become more caring, nice, friendly spirit even though he always had that in him, and the friendship of Yuugi's friends had helped it reveal to others. Yami is a strong, powerful, and skilled nameless Pharaoh. He is slightly reserved, as he doesn't reveal his existence to Yuugi or his friends for quite a while. After Yuugi admits to thinking "another presence" exists inside him, his friends become aware of his existence and accept him as a friend. Yami is also wise and intelligent. He knows all the rules and details of how the game is played, as well as those of all games. He also knows several special game techniques, such as the Double Hit dice roll technique, which, when two dice are used and the one with the weak spin stops first, lets him make the still spinning dice hit the one not spinning, allowing him to change its number, which is done by bumping the field with a body part, e.g the elbow. Yami is also capable of reading the ancient language of the Egyptians, figuring out the riddles or clues and what they mean. Through Yuugi and his friends, Yami Yugi learns the values and powers of friendship and unity.

There have been times when he's attempted to act on doing things without considering the consequences. This has caused him to almost kill Seto Kaiba by attacking him while he stood on a ledge, with him threatening to commit suicide if he lost. Yuugi holds him back from such acts at times, but not always successful. Yuugi becomes afraid to let Yami out for a while, because of the harm he could cause, even though Yami means no harm to him or his friends. Learning how to lose is something that he has not learned how to deal with. Concerning the Shadow Games he used to challenge people to, while they were for the sole protection of Yuugi and his friends, they were very brutal for his opponents. He states they reveal the true nature of humans, and their true purpose was not to gain the reward seemingly offered at the start of the game, but to test whether the person could obey the rules. Yami has stated to virtually every opponent that he knew from the start that they would not obey the rules and initiates a harsh Penalty Game for breaking the rules. Every Penalty Game has been an illusion of horror initiated by the Millennium Puzzle that only the person can see and feel, which at the time, he had no problems doing this without remorse or consequence, something that little Yuugi was afraid of; once his existence had been acknowledged, he stopped. Yami still has a long way to go in relearning a lot of things, with Yuugi being his partner every step of the way.

DECK(S):

DUELIST KINGDOM DECK

MONSTERS
- Battle Steer x2
- Beaver Warrior x2
- Blackland Fire Dragon x2
- Celtic Guardian x2
- Curse of Dragon x2
- Dark Magician x1
- Feral Imp x2
- Gaia the Fierce Knight x2
- Giant Soldier of Stone x2
- Griffore x2
- Horn Imp x2
- Koumori Dragon x2
- Left Arm of the Forbidden One x1
- Left Leg of the Forbidden One x1
- Mammoth Graveyard x2
- Mystical Elf x1
- Right Arm of the Forbidden One x1
- Right Leg of the Forbidden One x1
- Rude Kaiser x2
- Silver Fang x2
- Summoned Skull x1
- Torike x1
- Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1 x2
- Zombie Warrior x2
- Catapult Turtle x1
- Dark Sage x1
- Exodia the Forbidden One x1
- Kuriboh x2
- Sangan x2
- Black Luster Soldier x1
- Magician of Black Chaos x1
- B. Skull Dragon x1
- Dragon Master Knight x1
- Gaia the Dragon Champion

SPELLS
- Black Luster Ritual x1
- Black Magic Ritual x1
- Book of Secret Arts x2
- Brain Control x1
- Breath of Light x2
- Burning Land x2
- Dark Hole x1
- De-Spell x2
- Full Moon x2
- Horn of the Unicorn x2
- Living Arrow x2
- Magical Hats x2
- Makiu, the Magical Mist x2
- Monster Reborn x1
- Monster Recovery x2
- Monster Replace x1
- Multiply x2
- Mystic Box x2
- Polymerization x2
- Soul Release x1
- Swords of Revealing Light x2
- The Eye of Truth x1

TRAPS
- Mirror Force x1
- Spellbinding Circle x2

YU-GI-OH! R DECK

MONSTERS
- Arcana Knight Joker
- Alpha The Magnet Warrior
- Bau the Black Dog Beast
- Beta the Magnet Warrior
- Dark Magician
- Dark Red Enchanter
- Gamma the Magnet Warrior
- Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts
- Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
- Jack's Knight
- Kaien the Emissary of Darkness
- Queen's Knight
- Beast of Gilfer
- Big Shield Gardna
- Blockman
- Buster Blader
- Dark Magician Girl
- King's Knight
- Obelisk the Tormentor
- Slifer the Sky Dragon
- The Tricky
- The Winged Dragon of Ra
- Valkyrion the Magna Warrior
- Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord

SPELLS
- Bounce Spell
- Card of Sanctity
- De-Spell
- Diffusion Wave-Motion
- Divine Evolution
- Flames of the Archfiend
- Lightning Blade
- Magical Dimension
- Monster Reborn
- Monster Recovery
- Negate Attack
- Owner's Seal
- Polymerization
- Soul Barter
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Union Attack
- Weapon Regeneration

TRAPS
- Cross Counter Trap
- Domain of the Dark Ruler
- Shadow Guardsmen
- Soul Rope
- Spellbinding Circle
- Spellbinding Illusion
- Stairway to the Underworld

RANK: Domino Citizen/Duelist/Spirit

APPEARANCE: Yami Yuugi's appearance is roughly the same as little Yuugi's but with a lot of differences. The main difference is that Yami Yugi looks more like a teenager than Yugi, is taller, and has a deeper voice. His eyes are also narrower with a more intense, determined gaze. Yami Yuugi's hair features multiple layers, including long blond crooked, pointy locks for his fringe. Unlike Yuugi, some of the blond locks jut upwards. The rest of his hair features five large spikes colored black with magenta rims all along the edges. The spikes were loose and free-flowing in the beginning, but over time became stiffer. Yami's eyes are also the same color as Yuugi's. For his attire, the standard male Domino High uniform complete with a closed buckled collar and a set of Ankhs on his sleeves, which weren't present when Yuugi was in control. It was also noted that his uniform becomes a darker shade of blue when Yami assumes control. Also, during Duelist Kingdom, Yuugi's blue and white sneakers would turn into solid blue boot-like shoes when Yami takes control. The Ankhs were later removed. Unlike Yuugi, Yami sometimes wears the jacket as a cape. He wears the Millennium Puzzle on a brown leather rope around his neck. The leather rope is later replaced with a chain. When he played Dungeon Dice Monsters against Ryuji Otogi, he wore a dark-gray long-sleeved shirt, a sleeveless vest, dark blue pants, and black shoes.

HISTORY: Yuugi Motou solved most of the Millennium Puzzle while he was under the pressure of coming up with money to pay Ushio for his self-imposed bodyguard fees. However, he was beaten up by Ushio as he searched for a missing piece. Katsuya Jonouchi returned the last piece to Yuugi, as he tried fighting Ushio off. Barely conscious, Yugi finished the Millennium Puzzle, and his body became host to Yami Yugi. Yami Yugi confronted Ushio and challenged him to a Shadow Game. A deck of cards, which Yami Yuugi pretended was the money, was placed on top of a dome and both players hung freely from a rope around the spike at the top of the dome. Lined on the dome between the two players was a row of cards. How they advanced to the top was dictated by what card they turned over. Ushio attempted to cheat, earning him a Penalty Game, where he imagined he fell into a pit of monsters. Later on, a classmate of Yuugi's named Seto Kaiba had kidnapped his grandfather to obtain the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card that he had. Since Sugoroku had lost, Seto had taken the card and ripped it up so that it couldn't be used against him.

Yami duels Seto in Sugoroku's place, using the old man's deck. Seto manages to summon the other 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons", and Yami defeats him with "Exodia the Forbidden One". After winning, he Mind Crushes Seto, dispelling his evil side. With his eyes set on the Millennium Puzzle, the creator of Duel Monsters, Pegasus J. Crawford sends Yuugi a videotape and invitation to Duelist Kingdom. When the video is played, Pegasus appears on the screen and requests a Duel with Yuugi. Using his Millennium Eye, Pegasus takes Yuugi into The Shadow Realm, while Yuugi's friends and Grandpa are frozen. Yami Yuugi emerges and duels Pegasus. Pegasus reads Yami's mind, using his Millennium Eye, and learns his strategies. Yami ultimately loses due to the time limit on the Duel. Pegasus then steals Grandpa's soul, using his Millennium Eye to blackmail Yugi into entering the Duelist Kingdom tournament. At the tournament, Yami defeats Insector Haga and Ryota Kajiki and supports Jonouchi in his Duel against Mai Kujaku.

Mokuba Kaiba, who was held prisoner by Pegasus, escapes and steals another duelist deck. Mokuba wants revenge for how Kaiba Corporation got humiliated after Seto Kaiba lost to Yuugi and knows Pegasus needs to beat Yuugi to take over Kaiba Corp. He duels Yami Yuugi in the hopes of eliminating him, so Pegasus will be unable to face him in the finals. Unable to beat Yami, Mokuba steals two of his Star Chips to get him disqualified. Yami manages to convince Mokuba that they should be working together and to return the stolen Star Chips. Mokuba tries to return the first Star Chips he stole, but the duelist he took them from is already being shipped off the island. As Mokuba shows Kemo that duelist's Star Chips, Kemo slaps them into the water, including two of Yuugi's, and takes Mokuba captive. Yami challenges Kemo to a Duel for Mokuba's freedom. Kemo doesn't duel, though, but arranges another meeting, where he'll have an opponent for Yuugi.

Yami faced the Mimic of Doom, who initially disguised himself as Seto. The Mimic insisted that Seto was dead and he was his ghost seeking revenge. In all cases, Yami's opponent used Seto's Deck. The real Seto Kaiba hacked into Pegasus' computer system and installed a virus in the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", Yami's opponent summoned. Yami used the Millennium Puzzle to put the Mimic in a coma. Yuugi and his friends met up with Ryou Bakura. Yami Bakura, the spirit within Ryou's Millennium Ring trapped Honda, Anzu, Jonouchi, Yuugi, and Bakura in Duel Monsters cards, while he and Yami Yuugi dueled with them in their Decks.

After Summoning "Dark Magician", the card Yuugi had become, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Honda see that there are two Yuugi's for the first time. Yami is put at a disadvantage, as he focused on keeping his friends alive for the duel. Yami Bakura plays "Change of Heart", which Ryou had become. Ryou refuses to turn his friends against each other and takes over Yami Bakura's "Lady of Faith", telling Yami Yuugi that he can win if he attacks him. Yami Yuugi refuses to attack his friend. He then uses the Millennium Puzzle to switch the souls of the two Bakuras and attacks, sending Yami Bakura to the Graveyard and winning the duel. Afterward, Anzu, Honda, and Jonouchi all think they dreamed it all. Yami then faces Panik to win back Mai's Star Chips that she lost to him. Yami believes he knows what kind of man Panik was—a cowardly bully hiding behind defenses. Yami defeats him, but Panik doesn't give up and tries to kill Yugi with flame injectors. Yami protects himself with the power of the Millennium Puzzle and inflicts a Mind Crush on Panik. Yami Tag Duels with Jonouchi as they take on the Paradox Brothers together. The game being a Labyrinth Duel puts it strongly in the Paradox Brothers' favor, but Yuugi and Jonouchi can beat them through teamwork.

To leave the Labyrinth, there are two paths out of the arena: one leads out of the caves, while another leads to an endless maze. As a way of helping the two, the Brothers claim that one of them will speak only lies, while the other will speak only the truth, and allow both Yuugi and Jonouchi to ask one question each to find out which path is correct. However, Yami deduces that both brothers are lying and they have the power to change which path leads where. By using a two-headed coin to trick the Brothers into admitting this, Yuugi and his friends escape the caves. After this win, Yuugi and Jonouchi have enough Star Chips to enter the finals. On entry to the castle to enter the finals, Yuugi is confronted by Seto, who must beat Yuugi before he can face Pegasus. Seto summons the "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", causing trouble for Yami. Yami shields himself with a wall of "Kuriboh" from "Multiply" and manages to weaken the dragon by fusing "Mammoth Graveyard" into it, causing it to decay. When Yami is one attack away from victory, Seto stands up on the wall of the castle and threatens to commit suicide should he lose. Yami continues the attack, but Yuugi takes control and cancels the attack, forfeiting the duel to Seto, who takes five of Yuugi's Star Chips.

Yuugi manages to regain a spot in the finals as Mai gives him her excessive Star Chips, in thanks for winning hers back off PaniK. Yuugi faces Mai in the first round of the finals, but patronizes her and only thinks of facing Pegasus. This leads to a lot of bad plays on Yuugi's behalf. Having faith in his friends and everyone depending on him, Yami summons the "Black Luster Soldier" and uses it to defeat Mai. Yami Yuugi later faces Jonouchi in the finals. Despite being friends, neither player holds back. Jonouchi uses all he's learned from the Yuugi's in the past and puts up a close duel. Both players begin crying as Yami makes his final move, winning the duel. Yami proceeds to face Pegasus in the finals. His souls are at stake as he battles for the release of Grandpa and the Kaiba brothers' souls. Pegasus dominates the Duel at an early stage, with his Toon Monsters and using his Millennium Eye to read Yami's mind. Yami talks with Yuugi, who gets the idea to continually switch control of his body. This way, after Yuugi makes a move, he switches to Yami, whose mind Pegasus then reads. This causes Pegasus to not see what cards are played face-down and where Yugi hides "Dark Magician" under "Magical Hats".

Pegasus uses "Magical Neutralizing Force" to remove the hats, but Yami uses a card Yuugi Set, "Living Arrow", which copies "Magical Neutralizing Force", which destroys "Toon World", and "Mirror Force" destroys Pegasus' Toons. Pegasus then takes the Duel to the Shadow Realm and uses his eye-themed monsters. Yuugi, unable to cope with the Shadow Realm, passes out after a few turns, setting a card as he does so. Yami struggles with continuing the duel alone. He then gets a vision of Sugoroku, who tells him that Yuugi may not physically be with him, but his spirit still is. When Pegasus tries to read Yami's mind, the card he drew is blocked because of Anzu, Honda, and Jonouchi spiritually bonding together to support Yami. Yami manages to counter Pegasus' strategy, using the last card Yugi set, "Dark Magic Ritual," and a combination of Magic Cards, resulting in the "Magician of Black Chaos" being pitted against Pegasus' "Thousand-Eyes Restrict". Using "Multiply," "Thousand-Eyes Restrict" is forced to absorb a "Kuriboh Token" and has each of its eyes covered, freeing the Magician from its paralysis. "Magician of Black Chaos" attacks "Thousand-Eyes Restrict", winning the duel. About a week after that, Mokuba Kaiba requests the help of Yuugi and his friends after Seto Kaiba gets trapped in a virtual reality game by the Big Five.

Yuugi, along with Jonouchi, Mai, and Mokuba, save Seto. Yami and Seto together Summon Dragon Master Knight and use it to defeat the final boss, the Mythic Dragon. Then later, Sugoroku feared for his business, the Kame Game, when the new game store, the Black Clown, opened in Domino. He ordered Yuugi to stay away from the new shop. However, Yuugi and Anzu passed it on the way to school later. Yuugi received a flyer for a new game, Dungeon Dice Monsters, but Anzu dragged him away after he blushed at the lady handing out the flyer. At school, they met the new student, Ryuji Otogi, the owner of the Black Clown. Jonouchi was jealous of Ryuji's popularity and challenged him to a game of Duel Monsters. Yuugi objected to the condition that Jonouchi and Ryuji both use Decks from packs they open on the spot. Jonouchi lost the televised duel and, in keeping his end of the bargain, had to do whatever Ryuji said. Yuugi became disgusted after Ryuji forced Jonouchi to wear a dog suit and behave like a dog, so he switched to Yami, who challenged Ryuji to a duel. Ryuji accepted if they played Dungeon Dice Monsters instead of Duel Monsters, and should Yuugi lose, he must relinquish his title of "King of Games" and give up playing Duel Monsters. Unfamiliar with the rules, Yami got off to a rough start.

His chances did not improve as Ryuji revealed that he designed Dungeon Dice Monsters with Pegasus' aid. Ryuji blamed Yuugi for Pegasus' disappearance after Duelist Kingdom. Yami used his innate gaming skills to turn the tables on Ryuji. Yami succeeded in calling "Dark Magician", which Pegasus had added to the game, and used it to defeat Ryuji. After the game, Ryuji, Yuugi, and Yuugi's friends went to Ryuji's office. Ryuji lamented that his dream had been crushed as nobody would want to play Dungeon Dice Monsters now. However, Yuugi assured him that it was a great game and his friends agreed. Ryuji apologized for how he had treated them, and they agreed to be friends. For the time being, nothing has happened, and things seemed to have returned to a sense of normalcy for Yuugi and his friends. Yuugi is more aware of his Yami's presence, as are his friends, who have become his friends as well. Nothing may be happening, but this does leave Yami to wonder sometimes why his spirit lies within the puzzle and also wondering just who he really is and what his purpose for being here is. Part of him doesn't wish to find out if it means leaving Yuugi's side, whom he's become fond of. However, it will become a time when the two of them will have to grow up and move on. Of course, there are a lot of things that Yami himself needs to learn as well, and most of it, he's learning from Yuugi. So, he remains at Yuugi's side until an opportunity is presented to both of them that allows the questions they have to be answered. For the time being, Yami will be prepared for it. After all, he knows he cannot be with Yuugi forever.

Things calmed down after Duelist Kingdom, and Yuugi began living a relatively normal life with his friends and Yami existing within the puzzle. Yuugi had friends from Tokyo get teleported to Domino by an enemy they were fighting. Sailor Guardians is what they were called, and at the forefront were Sailor Moon and Sailor Star Moon. Usagi Tsukino & Jasmine Tsukino, respectively. Jasmine was Yuugi's girlfriend, which surprised Yami, who often encouraged him to ask out Anzu, but seeing how Yuugi lit up when he saw Jasmine, he knew then that he was happy. Life had changed for the large group of girls and their friends needed temporary places to stay, so Yuugi called his friends to see if they could temporarily house them until the girls got on their feet to find places of their own. Yuugi took in Chibiusa and Sakura. Sakura was Yuugi's future daughter with Jasmine. She was very stoic and quiet, but also blunt when speaking to others. It amused Yami to see this interaction between Yuugi, Jasmine, and Sakura. Yami did come out on his own to meet the group and informed them that, like Yuugi, he too would help the girls as much as he could. They thanked him, and the days began with everyone living in Domino. Apparently, the Sailor Guardians' new enemy was named "Sailor Galaxia," and she had henchmen who worked for her to take star seeds from innocent people. This worried Yuugi and even Yami as well. He asked Yuugi what it is that Sailor Guardians do. Yuugi told him they fight evil creatures, sometimes people with dark powers that want to hurt innocent people. To which Yami responded by saying something similar to how he used to defend Yuugi and his friends whenever they were in trouble by taking over. Yuugi nodded and said yes, but the girls were in actual physical battles with these enemies and always got seriously injured in the process.

Yami was concerned about that, but listening to Yuugi, he could tell these girls had been doing it for a long time and were used to it. From there, things were fairly normal outside of the attacks going on around the city and the girls having to deal with them. In one situation involving an outing at the mall with everyone, Anzu had become a target of one of Sailor Galaxia's henchmen, Sailor Vortex. Anzu had turned into a phage, calling herself "Sailor Dancer". Thankfully, they were able to save Anzu, turning her back to normal. Anzu had no recollection of what happened, but Yuugi, Jonouchi, and Honda told her later. It wasn't hard to believe considering what they all went through dealing with Pegasus. But Yami and Yuugi both were glad that Anzu was safe. That's what mattered. But eventually, Yami began to notice things about Anzu were causing her to pull away from the gang. Then there was Yuugi's school life involving one student, a girl named Juria Kase. Yami came out every so often, but most of the time, he allowed Yuugi to stay in control of his own body, but still talked to him and offered advice whenever he needed it. Unlike before, he wasn't pushing Yuugi to confess to Anzu since he was dating Jasmine. Rather, he wanted Yuugi to check in on her because she was becoming more distant with everyone. It wasn't hard for him to notice that Anzu was hiding how she was feeling because she didn't want to be a burden to others.

Yuugi did just that despite the chaos happening around them with Sailor Galaxia and her henchmen steadily going after innocent people who had a "Star Seed". Of course, the others were worried about what was happening, including Yami. He would take over to help in any way he could if Yuugi needed him to. He told him that. Yuugi told him that he would let him know when that time came. Right now, he wanted to make sure that his friends were okay. Jonouchi was still getting things situated with his younger sister, Shizuka, who was still prepping for her eye surgery. Honda and Bakura were okay for the most part, but it was Anzu, who was the main concern for both Yami and Yuugi. When Yuugi asked her to meet with him after school, she told him she didn't have time to, but did so because of the look of concern on his face. Yami remained in the puzzle, not interfering, but watching. The two talked, and it was during their conversation that they both learned Anzu was having a harder time living with her mother and taking care of her cousin and sister. Not to mention that her cousin was diagnosed with an illness that she wouldn't be able to recover from. The money Anzu earned from the job she works in secret isn't enough to pay for all the medical bills. Her mother wasn't helping like she always did, and Anzu felt as if she was drowning.